Etcetera: exhibition, talk
A couple things happening in New York of late:
A talk is happening at the Observatory 7:30pm in Brooklyn by medical illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, titled “Italian Wax Anatomical Models in European Collections”. Sounds like just the kind of thing anyone weird enough to appreciate the art and dissections would appreciate! More information over at the Morbid Anatomy site. Also see the post about the Italian tour; some of its photos put current anatomy models to shame.
Also of interest: the Pelham Art Center in Pelham, NY is hosting “And for all this, nature is never spent”. Including a collection of work by both students and professionals, it’s goal is to increase public awareness of the state of the environment. As a perk, it looks tastefully done, includes some truly lovely works, and isn’t all about shoving a message down your throat.
Here’s the the larger context the title is taken from:
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; Bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
–Gerard Manley Hopkins
[via New York Times article]
